UN aid agencies have condemned a US-Israeli plan to use aid as “bait” to forcibly displace Palestinian civilians into a small area of southern Gaza.
US Ambassador to Israel Mike Huckabee unveiled the plan on Friday, although there’s no clear timeline, and Gaza remains under a total Israeli blockade, pushing millions of civilians into starvation.
Huckabee said the effort will be headed by a newly formed private foundation, and the aid distribution will be carried out by private US security contractors. He said four aid distribution sites would be established and admitted that the program would initially only feed about 1.2 million people, or about 60% of Gaza’s population.
When pressed on the lack of a plan to feed the rest of the Palestinian population of Gaza, Huckabee said it would be “scaled up” over time. An Israeli official speaking to The Times of Israel said Israel hoped other countries would begin taking in Palestinians to minimize the need for aid, meaning Israel intends to use the threat of starvation to push for ethnic cleansing.
The Times of Israel report also said the four aid distribution sites will be set up south of the Morag Corridor, a strip of land Israel has seized that is just north of the southern city of Rafah. Under its plans to escalate the assault on Gaza, Israel wants to “concentrate” all of Gaza’s civilian population into this tiny area.
Once Palestinians are forced into a concentration camp in the south, Israel would then pressure them to leave Gaza, although it’s unclear where they would go. “The Gazan citizens will be concentrated in the south. They will be totally despairing, understanding that there is no hope and nothing to look for in Gaza, and will be looking for relocation to begin a new life in other places,” said Israeli Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich.
James Elder, a spokesman for the UN’s Palestinian relief agency, UNRWA, said establishing the aid distribution centers in the south would give Palestinians the “impossible choice between displacement and death.”
He said the plan “contravenes basic humanitarian principles” and appears designed to “reinforce control over life-sustaining items as a pressure tactic.”
UNRWA has said it has thousands of trucks ready to deliver aid to Gaza but they continue to be blocked by Israel. “There is a simple alternative: lift the blockade, let humanitarian aid in, save lives,” Elder said.
The zig zagged appeasement before the total annulation…!
That is Hamas's choice and Hamas could end this on any day of the week for last 19 months. It is their choice to continue this fiasco.
Bullshit.
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So you’re saying if Hamas frees the hostages, then there will be an independent Palestinian state where they will have control of their own borders and their own destinies? Exactly.
No what he is saying that if Hamas surrenders the fighting and killing will stop. If Hamas does not release the hostages the killing will continue. Hamas fighters will be hunted down and they will be killed along with their human shields.
Israel only agreed to a temporary ceasefire if hostages were released, and then they would reimpose their years long brutal blockade. Your selective memory is grating.
”Human shields” like Shireen Abu Akleh? How about those toddlers targeted by IDF snipers? Or do you mean the 15 Palestinian paramedics executed and buried?
You keep listing things that would get any other group on our state departments designated terrorist list. And your George W Bush imitation about hunting down and killing Hamas and then flippantly saying "along with their human shields" makes you twice the asshole I thought you were. Ooops, I meant fucking asshole.
That's a joke.
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Well we certainly do not support Hamas and their methods and neither do most Arab Countries. Only the fringe element supports Hamas, which gets a lot of coverage on news stations.
If Israel didn’t have the complicity of the US government and media in pushing their lies and obfuscation, US support for Israel would be at about 3%, consistent with the percentage of irredeemable psychopaths in the country.
Lol…Thanks for the sanity.
As of March 2025, the State of Palestine is recognized as a sovereign state by 147 of the 193 member states of the United Nations, or just over 75% of all UN members. It has been a non-member observer state of the United Nations General Assembly since November 2012. This limited status is largely due to the fact that the United States, a permanent member of the UN Security Council with veto power, has consistently used its veto or threatened to do so to block Palestine's full UN membership.
Only fascists support Israel, which controls much of the Western media's narrative in promoting disinformation.
For the past year and a half, Israel and Western media has spread debunked lies about "beheaded and burned babies" by Hamas and repeated disinformation about members working in the UNRWA.
The Israeli government put on a masterclass on how to use the Western media to spread fake news and propaganda and to justify anti-Palestinian actions. In fact, Israel's continued use of propaganda to demonize and dehumanize Palestinians gets lots of news coverage in Western countries.
Inside the Israeli occupation’s propaganda ad factory. https://smex.org/inside-the…
Israel and the Western powers that support it have long gone past mere depravity and moral bankruptcy. They are the puke of the universe.
Yes, but unfortunately some Arab countries are still dealing with them. Trump will depart to three of those countries today I believe where he will get gifts and will be wined and dined in his Trump towers there.
If the world and the Arab countries would stick together against those two bullies it would work, but they ae not.
The Arab countries don't get involved. Why would they? Every time the did it didn't not work out for them. See 1948, 1967 and 1973.
How quickly one forgets who started this round of fighting.
So, you're defending the luring of people to certain parts of the country, with aid that has been cut off for 70 odd days, to make the ethnic cleansing plan a bit more efficient. And it's all because of who started this round of fighting. I just have to repeat it for it to sink in. And you say I have no class for dropping "F" bombs.
So god-brain Mike Huckabee is in charge of the US plan to use an insufficient amount of food as 'bait' for Palestinians like he's noodling catfish in the Ozarks? In addition to the war crimes themselves, the rest of the world has to deal with the indignity of being murdered under the direction of Cletus the Slack-Jawed Yokel.
You don’t use bait to noodle catfish. That’s kind of the point of noodling.
The fingers are bait. “The most popular explanation links to the wiggling of fingers underwater mimicking the movement of cooked noodles. This action is used to entice catfish lurking in submerged holes and crevices.” https://enviroliteracy.org/why-do-they-call-it-noodling/
Interesting. I had relatives who noodled and they never told me that part. I thought the whole idea sounded pretty crazy (especially after hearing about a great-uncle who nearly drowned and lost a bunch of meat off his arm) and never tried it. I guess I’m chicken, but I always preferred sitting on the bank or in a boat with a rod and reel.
I was just thinking the other day how little I realized how poor we were when I was a kid. Many weekends for the first couple of years on the farm, either we would go fishing, then gut/clean/scale fish and have a fish fry for dinner, or my dad would go out with his gun and come back with a couple of squirrels or a rabbit for dinner. I just thought the fishing was fun and the hunting was sport with a nice fringe benefit, but now I realize my parents were stretching the food budget and that once we’d been on the farm long enough to butcher the first steer and first hog, the fishing/hunting for food slowed way down.
I too would prefer staying dry and … relaxing. And staying above water, where I have the advantage!
Exactly!
I haven’t been fishing for a long time, but there was a period when I did catch and release. At some point, I decided that fishing was for fun, and that if I just wanted to eat fish it was easier (and, really, cheaper when including things like transportation, tacklet, etc.) to go to Long John Silver’s or find a local fish fry during Lent.
I’m kind of hoping some time in the next few years to be able to afford one of those “everybody pays a fee, gets on a boat, heads out for deep ocean water, and fishes for four hours” tours. I’ve never been saltwater fishing. Growing up, it was all ponds, lakes, creeks, and rivers up in Missouri.
Oh you have to go, Tom … you live in Florida, the saltwater capital for heavens sake!
Yep … unfortunately, the rest of my family seems to have little interest in the beach, the ocean, fishing, etc., so I have to go solo or set up trips with friends.
Hamas could have ended what they initiated on Oct 7th at any time in the the last 19 months by simply laying down their arms and releasing all the hostages.
Had Hamas surrender 19 months ago, all the good people of Gaza would today be sleeping in their own beds and eating at their own tables.
Netanyahu could have ended the genocide anytime in the the last 19 months, instead, he deliberately ignored the ceasefire agreement to implement his "final solution" of the ethnic cleansing of 2.3 million Palestinians from their land to make way for his Zionist expansionist agenda, in blatant violation of international law.
If not for Zionist settler-colonialism, the good people of Gaza would not have been refugees from the 1948 Nakba.
The Nakba never ended.
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"The Nakba never ended." Nakba means The Catastrophe. Yes the decision of Arabs countries to try to destroy Israel in 1948 was indeed a Catastrophe for the Palestinians. And decision by Hamas to attack Israel in 2023 was also a Catastrophe for the Palestinians.
They had every moral right to try and destroy Israel, a country founded on massacres and ethnic cleansing, yet they did not. They just fought to stay on the land.
Yes, the decision of the ICC to prosecute Israeli war criminals was indeed long overdue.
ICC Pre-Trial Chamber I rejects the State of Israel’s challenges to jurisdiction and issues warrants of arrest for Benjamin Netanyahu and Yoav Gallant. https://www.icc-cpi.int/news/situation-state-palestine-icc-pre-trial-chamber-i-rejects-state-israels-challenges
And you will be mentally tortured by the obscenities of what you say. Come again, if you're one of those depraved racists you probably don't have a conscience.
Folks! do you see the depravity of this post? We are committing a genocide but blame the victims. They made us do it.
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US Ambassador to Israel Mike Huckabee unveiled the plan on Friday, although there’s no clear timeline, and Gaza remains under a total Israeli blockade, pushing millions of civilians into starvation.
By all means, take your time. Now if some weapons are needed to bomb those poor bastards, we'll get right on it.
And if he drags it out another couple months, it will “solve itself” to our everlasting shame.
Huckabee is an awful man, his plan will not work and will not be implemented. He is one of those evangelist Israel worshippers, totally brain washed and corrupt.
Wow, have to agree with you on that one.
Be careful, you flatter the fool.
And he was appointed by trump. So if Huckabee is an awful man, so is the person who put him in the job and keeps him in the job.
Great press for Trump's middle east trip were not to be ignored for all the "economic agreements" Trump's there to negotiate.
First stop Riyadh. Remember we thought the Bushes were too invested in the Saudis. Trump's family makes the Bushes rookies with Jarad, Don Jr and Eric with real estate investments in the all the countries Trump's visiting. Maybe in Qatar Trump'll get a peek at his new luxury Air Force One, a “GIFT, FREE OF CHARGE” from the Qatari royal family. You know it's The Greatest!
200K dead Palestinians and counting, let's see what Trump comes back with and we can calculate how much each dead Palestinian contributes to the "investments" the great negotiator brings back to Make American Oligarchs Richer.
One of the Zionist idiots on this cite… "they don't look like they're starving."